EvidenceSheet
Azure Security Benchmark v3 (renamed Microsoft cloud security benchmark) · Governance and Strategy

GS-8 Define and implement backup and recovery strategy

Define and implement a backup and recovery strategy with documented guidance, policy and standards including recovery time and recovery point objectives.

Source: Azure Security Benchmark v3 (renamed Microsoft cloud security benchmark), GS-8. The statement above is our statement of the clause, read from the published text and cited so you can check it against the official text, not the instrument verbatim. Open Azure Security Benchmark v3 (renamed Microsoft cloud security benchmark) in the compliance library.

4
artefacts
0
held by a system
1
at each review
hard
to go live
Policy repository / GRC workspace
where the evidence lives
teal = a system already holds it · olive = produced at each review. To go live: easy when half or more of the artefacts are already held by a system, moderate from a quarter to a half, hard below a quarter.

These are the artefacts auditors commonly ask for on this requirement, our guidance rather than text from the standard. Your assessor decides what is sufficient in your context, and asks for samples across the period when a report covers one.

system holds itEvidence a system already holds

none for this control

periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review

  • Evidence recovery testing is scheduled against those objectives · Backup / DR tooling

governing documentDocuments that govern the control

  • Backup and recovery strategy document · Policy repository / GRC workspace
  • Recovery time and recovery point objectives per service tier · Policy repository / GRC workspace
  • Backup policy and standard derived from the objectives · Policy repository / GRC workspace

First move

No system holds this evidence for you: it is people and documents. Reminders and routing to the owner still save time. Put the document under version control with an owner and review date, and log each review as a record with reviewer and date.

Common gaps auditors find

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